Top 3 features of Dynatrace liked by Performance Engineers

Dynatrace is one of the APM tools popular amongst performance engineers. Here are the 3 top features that make it liked by performance engineers:

1. Custom Measures
2. Sensors
3. Monitors

Custom Measures:
Measures help collect and store data that can be used for charting and trend analysis. Custom measures provide the power and flexibility to collect and store data of your liking and use according to your needs e.g. with custom measures you can count the number of times a save order transaction happens, you can count how many times certain report is generated.

Sensors:
Hot sensor placement allows to make changes in instrumentation without restarting the application. User-defined Sensors are used to specify additional entrypoints or access specific information in a method’s parameters. Most of the times out of the box sensors are enough to capture required information but sensor properties can be changed to capture more information.

Monitors:
Monitors allow to capture resource usage of hosts where Dynatrace agent is not installed, e.g. mostly Dynatrace agent is installed on the application server, health of database server can be tracked without installing agent on it with the help of Monitors. Monitors can even do URL monitoring.